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Pollen covered Opisthoncus mordax (Biting Jumping Spider) on a daisy petal.
Hand-held 14 image focus stack on a Nikon D850.
Please enjoy and have a great day. ☺️
Species ID and location:
Opisthoncus mordax (Biting Jumping Spider). Adult male.
Victoria Point, QLD Australia.
Saturday, 4th July 2026.
Camera info:
Nikon D850,
AF-S Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G VR lens,
Godox V86Oiii(N) flash,
Cygnustech diffuser,
Neewer LED panel as focus lamp.
Camera settings:
All images @
ISO 31,
f/22,
1/250,
Flash @ 1/2 power.
Manual focus @ MFD.
A spider scrum of baby orb web spiders on a vertical shed wall- Araneus diadematus. Focus stacked from 4 pics
see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/142614824/
www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/142614826/
for what happened next
Stack of 140 pics focus step 0.015mm
Stackshot Rail
zerene Stacker PMax
nikon D810
nikon plan 10x/0.25 microscope lens on a nikkor 200mm f4 lens
the same fruit in last october:
www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgang-kynast/39368773011
Now the fruit is open and ready to sent the seeds into the wide world.
Fruit width ~25mm / 1"
Focus stack
This appears to be rough precious opal, most likely Ethiopian hydrophane opal from the Welo/Wollo area, shown as a close-up pile of uncut pieces with attached host matrix. Confidence: moderate. The strongest visual clues are the translucent to milky body, irregular rough fragments, attached pale/tan matrix, and the strong play-of-color flashing blue, green, orange, red, and violet across many pieces. Ethiopian opal is well known for this kind of hydrophane, play-of-color rough.
Description
The image shows a dense assortment of raw opal fragments ranging from milky white to pale blue, lavender, and translucent honey tones. Many pieces retain rough, chalky or rocky host material on their surfaces. The most striking feature is the vivid internal iridescence—broad flashes and patches of spectral color that shift across the stones, especially blues, greens, purples, and orange-red fire. Opal is a hydrated silica mineraloid rather than a true crystalline mineral, and precious opal displays this color effect because of its internal structure. Ethiopian hydrophane opal can also change appearance when it absorbs water, sometimes altering transparency and color intensity.
Closest alternatives / look-alikes
Less likely possibilities are:
Australian rough precious opal: also shows play-of-color, but this image looks more like the translucent hydrophane-type rough commonly associated with Ethiopian material.
Common opal or opalite glass: unlikely, because the image shows genuine-looking irregular play-of-color and natural matrix attachment rather than a uniform man-made glow.
Just some macro fun with an orchid I have in a flower pot.
My first attempt with focus stacking using Zerene Stacker.
Tried several times using Adobe Photoshop CS5 with completely useless results. Downloaded Zerene Stacker (trial) and it worked flawlessly on the first attempt. Go figure :-)
Not completely sure whether I'd prefer to have more light from the top, but I really like the dramatic light from the bottom. :-)
Strobist info:
Key: naked SB-800 with grid, directly below subject
Fill: SB-800, shoot-through umbrella, 45 degrees above subject, camera left
Testaufnahmen mit LED-Fotolampe - danke an das "Kamisori Harnisch" Team für die scharfen (!) Objekte - Verbandskasten lag bereit!
Test shots with LED photo lamp - thanks to the "Kamisori Harnisch" team for lending the sharp (!) objects - first aid kit was ready!
Week 3 of 52
The lesson I learned for week 2 was not to wait till the last minute at the end of the week to take the shot. If your idea doesn't work out exactly as planned, well, you're out of luck and out of time.
So I decided to try at the beginning of the week this time. Why was this my week 3 choice? Well, I found this small leaf back in October. When I noticed how the tip was curled I immediately though it would be the perfect cradle for a drop of water. I've been saving that leaf for over three months now and figured it was about time I tried to do something with it.
Suspend the leaf from the top above an LED flashlight, add a black background, turn the room lights off, add some water, and get in super close with the macro lens. Week 3's shot turned out much closer to my vision than week 2. And I haven't played with my macro table-top setup in a while anyway :)
Eschscholzia californica.
While many wild California Poppy plants are without flowers in late fall into early winter, we have a few plants that have come up in pots in which other plants grow and they are flowering actively in late December. This one was drooping with the weight of the rain.
I must have missed a point in my photo stacking because 'Canon' on the camera isn't as sharp as it should be.
© Anvilcloud Photography
Focus stacking generally gives great results - with a tripod. Not having a tripod I thought I'd give it a try. I set the camera on manual focus and swayed my body in and out. This didn't come out too bad because it was in the middle of the frame. Moving away from center produced ghosting (17 images). Probably f/5.6 and half the images would have been better. Fewer images equal fewer processing issues to resolve.